We heard the sad news last week that UK crane rental veteran Alex Glover has died
03.09.2024 5
The latest issue of this industry leading magazine is now on line and comes 25 years after the first issue appeared in May/June 1999
27.06.2024
UK rental company Chippindale Hire & Sales celebrates its 75th anniversary today
26.04.2024
The Chesapeake 1000 floating crane is playing a crucial role in the Baltimore bridge collapse but its history unveils a Cold War secret
05.04.2024
The Liebherr plant in Ehingen has delivered its 2,000th crane so far this year, the first time in its history
20.12.2023
A reader spotted a video in which an historic 500 tonne Gottwald is discovered in deep undergrowth (New pics added)
11.11.2023 3
The Bobcat telehandler plant in Pontchâteau, France has celebrated 60 years of production
05.09.2023
An aging Rapier mobile crane with cantilever boom needs saving from the scrap yard
17.02.2023 1
UK-based Crowland Cranes has completed and delivered a fully restored six tonne Hydrocon Highlander mobile lattice boom crane
01.07.2022 5
A third generation is taking over at the helm of Dutch crane rental company Nederhoff
20.05.2022
Czech crane rental company Hanyš has ordered 18 Liebherr cranes as it celebrates 30 years in business
29.11.2021
India’s Hindustan Construction Company has taken a 25t Comansa 21CM550 flat top tower crane
12.11.2021
Liebherr has built the very last 600t LR 1600/2 crawler crane, following the arrival of the new 700t LR 1700
05.11.2021
We have been reminded of a series of videos documenting the work of legendary UK steeplejack Fred Dibnah
29.10.2021 3
A reader in the US has sent us an historic photograph from the early 1940s of an fire/rescue aerial ladder truck.
01.10.2021 2
A reader in California sent us a photograph showing a man maintaining a street light from a ladder tower
30.07.2021
German rental company Gigalift has taken the 15,000th Ruthmann truck mounted platform
20.07.2021
A-Plant/Sunbelt service engineer Brian Symcox has celebrated 50 years with the company
09.07.2021
Long term crane man Richard Breedon has retired from Ainscough Crane Hire after 45 years.
18.06.2021
Sent in by a reader from the UK, a photograph of three men working on a large free standing ladder
14.08.2020 3
We have just received the sad news that Alan Taylor, the man behind some of the very first commercially viable hydraulic cranes, died in April. He was 96.
24.07.2020 1
UK crane company Roadcraft Crane Hire has celebrated its 100th anniversary.
15.05.2020 12
Chinese crane and aerial lift manufacturer XCMG has produced its 200,000th wheeled mobile crane.
30.04.2020 5
We have received the sad news that Irish crane industry pioneer Sean Meade passed away suddenly on October 21st, he was 78.
04.11.2019